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Your excellence not only in the art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame , but also in philosophy and elegant literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages .
Your excellence not only in the art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame , but also in philosophy and elegant literature , is well known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages .
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You , my dear sir , studied him , and knew him well : you venerated and admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little pecu- liarities and ...
You , my dear sir , studied him , and knew him well : you venerated and admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little pecu- liarities and ...
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... but after having com- pleted his very laborious and admirable edition of Shak- speare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly ob → tained , he fulfilled his promise of a ...
... but after having com- pleted his very laborious and admirable edition of Shak- speare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly ob → tained , he fulfilled his promise of a ...
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olim semper miraturi , ' whose candour and genius will to the end of time be by his writings preserved in admiration . " There are many invisible circumstances which , whe- ther we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge ...
olim semper miraturi , ' whose candour and genius will to the end of time be by his writings preserved in admiration . " There are many invisible circumstances which , whe- ther we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge ...
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My admiration only I exprest , ( No spark of envy harbours in my breast , ) That , when confusion o'er the country reigns , Το you alone this happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself ...
My admiration only I exprest , ( No spark of envy harbours in my breast , ) That , when confusion o'er the country reigns , Το you alone this happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library (Bibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines) |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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